merveilles
\mɛʁ.vɛj\
The verdict
“merveilles” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,426. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,426
- frequency rank, French
- 5,038
- “M” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de merveille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-merveilles · merveilles · French
merveilles · rank #8,426 · 13 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,426
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,038
- PHOTO-FINISH Matthieu
Nearest frequency peer: Matthieu (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « merveilles »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- majeures
majeures
91,579 corpus weight
- marteau
marteau
91,578 corpus weight
- Matthieu
Matthieu
91,576 corpus weight
- merveilles
merveilles
91,575 corpus weight
- Michelle
Michelle
91,574 corpus weight
- moine
moine
91,573 corpus weight
What this shows « merveilles » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | merveilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \mɛʁ.vɛj\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « merveilles »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around merveilles (IPA \mɛʁ.vɛj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,426 among 5,038 “M” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de merveille.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for merveilles, with forms such as "emrveilles", "merevilles", and "merrveilles". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "merveilleux", "merveilleuse", "merveille", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is merveilles, spelled M-E-R-V-E-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de merveille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how merveilles appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par exemple!… vous ne voulez pas que je renarre les merveilles de ma clarinette à M. et à Mᵐᵉ Vertbois.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- emrveilles
- merevilles
- merrveilles
- merveilels
- merveiles
- merveilless
- merveillse
- merveliles
- mervielles
- mervveilles
- mevreilles
- mmerveilles
- mreveilles
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of merveilles - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).